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We went wrong as a society the minute we stopped putting trumpet solos in songs

did you know that every piano is slightly out of tune?

modern pianos are tuned according to equal temperament- the octave is divided equally into 12 semitones. this allows for notes to sound roughly 'in tune' regardless of the key, however the ratios between note frequencies are not harmonic meaning that technically they are out of tune.

sources:

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gQWyHQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

https://www.britannica.com/art/equal-temperament

about four years ago my music teacher handed me the following piece of music and asked me to sight read it:

this is an excerpt of john cage’s ‘aria’. would you believe that these squiggles on a page actually mean something.

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